Lipstick holder



Feb. 17, 1942. PE 2,273,138

LIPSTICK HOLDER I Filed Jan. 24, 1959 Patents Feb. 17, 19342 UNITEDSTATES PATENT oFFicE LIPSTICK HOLDER Gunnard P. Peterson, Naugatuck,Conn., assignor to The Risdon Manufacturing Company, Naugatuck, Conn., acorporation of Connecticut Application January 24, 1939, Serial No.252,5 37 2 Claims. (Cl. 206-56) This invention relates to simplificationof the structure and assembly of the elements of the common screw typelipstick holder, and like articles, and its general object is economy ofmanufacturing cost. A more particular object is to realize such economyin holders having elongated operating heads, longer -than the usualknurled rim, adapted to be more positively held between thumb and.finger when the device is used. These and other objects are attained bythe structure of this invention which is illustrated by the lipstickholder shown in the accompanying drawing. v

Fig. 1 represents the assembled holder in axial section and Fig. 2 is aseparate view of the several parts, indicating their mode of assembly.

In this holder, the lipstick proper, marked l, is held in cup orelevator 2, which is an automatic punch-press product. It has a part orsection slitted out of its side wall and rolled up to form a radiallyprojecting lug 3 which is thus integral with the cup. The lug serves thepurpose of the cross-pin commonly found in screw type holders and, thusformed, makes this one-piece element the full equivalent of the usualtwo-piece elevator consisting of a cup and an inserted cross-pin.

This elevator cup is adapted to slide up and down in the slottedactuator tube or sleeve 4 with its integral lug projecting into andthrough the slot 5 thereof, which is preferably a straight slot. Thetube 4 is formed with shoulders at its top and bottom representedrespectively by an outwardly bossed head 6' at its upper end and aradial flange l at its lower end. This flange is drawn down to form acylindrical attachment head 8 shorter than its own diameter. The slot 5is cut through the flange i so as to accommodate the lug 3 on the cupand thus admit the cup to its working position inside the sleeve. Thisshortens the usual assembly process of inserting the cup in the tube andthen inserting the cross-pin in it and through the slot.

Up and down movement is imparted to the cup through its lug 3 whichprojects beyond the straight slot 5 into another outer slot 9 which ispreferably helical and formed in or by the sleeve Ill which immediatelysurrounds the actuator tube t and in which the latter is adapted to berotated.

The outer sleeve I0 is conveniently rolled up out of a flat blank so cutthat the helical slot 9 is produced between its proximate inclined ends.This method of forming the helical slot in lipstick holders is not newexcept that in the prescut case one edge of the blank is so cut as togive the slot an end stop at the point marked II in Fig. 2 against whichthe lug 3 can strike to limit the inward travel of cup in the tube.Below stop If, the edges of the rolled blank meet in a parting linemarked l2 (Fig. 2) and these edges are normally abutting when the partsare assembled.

For assembly the sleeve is rolled to a somewhat larger diameter than ithas when it is installed in the device and can therefore be passed overthe bead shoulder 6 on the actuator or tube 4. When it has been broughtinto a position between that bead and the shoulder flange I, the outersleeve or casing I3 i pushed over it and this contracts the sleeve toits working diameter in which it is held against endwise displacement bythe bead and flange and in which its helical slot'is occupied by theelevator lug- 3. The dotteddines in Fig. 2 indicate the expandedcondition of the sleeve. pressure of the sleeve on the outer casing, byits friction, holds the latter securely against accidental displacement.

The main casing 13 is formed with an outwardly bossed band [4 which canbe located at any desired level preferably at some distance from thebottom end, so that the operating head or thumb piece can have a,desirable length for grasping by the user. This piece is a cup It heldby a pressed fit upon the head 8 of the inhe! tube, upon which it isforcedto a position in which its edge is flush with the lower edge ofthe casing band l4.

Except for the cover II, the article is now complete, formed of fourpunch-press products, assembled in a simple manner as will be apparent.The cover fits over the main casing and seats on the upper edge of thecasing band M, as shown in Fig. 1. Holding the main casing and rotatingthe thumb piece causes the lipstick to advance and withdraw as will nowbe understood.

I claim:

1. In a lipstick or like holder having an outer casing formed with anoutwardly bossed band to seat a cover, an outer sleeve therein providedwith a slot, an inner relatively rotary tube provided with a slot and anelevator in the tube having a lug occupyi both slots, the improvementwhich consists in said inner tube having an attachment head abutting theends of said sleeve and casing and an operating head in the form of acup pressed onto said head and extending over said outer casing intoproximity to said band thereon.

The expansive tachment head abutting the ends of said sleeve and easing,said head being slotted to admit the elevator lug to the slot in saidtube and a thumbpiece cup pressed onto said attachment head andextending over the end of said outer casing to a 5 junction with theband thereof.

GUNINARD P. PETERSON.

